Economics and Sustainability
Undergraduate course, Stony Brook University, Economics Department, 2023
These are my slides for Economics and Sustainability. I taught the course in Spring 2022 and Fall 2023. It is an interdisciplinary course focused on the economics of sustainable systems. It provides an introduction to environmental economics at a less mathematical level and is directed at practitioners in the field of sustainability. The textbooks are Introduction to Sustainable Development by Peter Rogers, Kazi F. Jalal , and John A. Boyd and Environmental Economics An Introduction by Barry C. Field and Martha K. Field.
The course is split up between Mondays and Wednesdays lectures, which focus on course content, and Fridays recitations, which focus on applying what students learn.
The syllabus can be found here:
Lectures
Lecture 1: Introduction to Sustainability and Economic Thinking
Lecture 2: Economy and the Environment
Lecture 3: Supply and Demand
Lecture 4: Environmental Quality
Lecture 5: Cost-benefit Analysis
Lecture 6: Incentive-based Strategies
Lecture 7: Command and Control Policies
Lecture 8: Sustainable Development
Lecture 9: Sustainable Development Indicators and Insurance Markets
Sustainable Development Indicators and Insurance Markets
Lecture 11: Forecasting and the Balance Sheet
Forecasting and the Balance Sheet
Lecture 12: Electricity Markets
I used materials for this lecture from ISONE.
Lecture 13: Energy Market Policy
In this lecture I go over materials from the Energy Information Administration’s Annual Energy Outlook.
Lecture 14: Game Theory and Sustainability
Game Theory and Sustainability